e want children to love learning and feel enthusiastic and coming to their place of learning.
This is a vision for the future of education systems co-created by the authors. Their goal is to envision what an inclusive, ideational infrastructure for education systems around the world could look like where learners are empowered and at the center of their respective systems. These are guiding principles agreed upon by this cross-cultural group of experts, which they believe can be embraced cross-culturally. - The editors.
We want children to love learning and feel enthusiastic and coming to their place of learning.
Their teachers are now guides who light sparks and fan the flames of curiosity.
Learning happens anywhere. Learning centers are fluid and change based on community needs.
Within these learning centers there is a feeling of safety, trust, dignity, and respect towards the guides and the students.
The students are asked what they are curious about, what they want to learn. They are given the support and guidance to follow their chosen learning path.
The students learn to self-assess, how to give and receive feedback, and how to resolve conflicts, both internal and external. Students learn to value their individuality and their role as an active, contributing member in society.
Students know life is not a zero-sum game, but abundance. They are not compared to each other. They don’t compete, but collaborate. That if you thrive then I thrive and we thrive.
They feel supported in their challenges. Failure is non-existent if you learned something.
Learning guides are respected and valued in society. Given the recognition and admiration of their communities for being the ones who are taking on the privilege of guiding the children.
Teaching others is regarded as one of the most privileged and important positions in society. Learning guides are lifelong learners themselves, do self-development and thereby lead by example.
When a student ‘chooses’ to leave their chosen ‘formal’ education they do so knowing that they're still learning, and are enthusiastic about continuing to learn and help those around them.
There is no longer a fixed definition of success. Indeed, we no longer use the word success. It's deemed old, antiquated and even offensive. We now use the word “thrive” or some other word that encapsulates one's growth into the best version of themselves.
Technology is a useful part of their life. They use it as a tool, it serves them, not rules them.
Learners feel heard, and their opinion matters. As does everyone else's. They listen and they enjoy listening to everyone's opinions. They can rethink and unlearn. They doubt what they know, remain curious about what they don’t know, and keep an open-mind. They don't feel scared if they don't know something. They enjoy not knowing.
They know how to care for their social, emotional, and physical health. They listen to their bodies, they take the time to show it the respect it deserves.
Students feel excited. It will be another month or another year of contributing to another person's life. They have questions about the future, but at the same time, they feel hope.
The students are never left wanting anything. They're joyful, engaged, they feel cared for and creative. They see they feel seen and heard.
Their questions are respected and responded to with curiosity. They're allowed to be still. Students are empowered and able to feel intrigued.
When they feel lost or frustrated, they recognize this because they've been asked to get out of their comfort zone. But they feel supported in this. When their emotions ebb and flow when they feel confused, they feel supported most of the time and feel able to ask for help.
Students are valued for all aspects of their personalities, their strengths are celebrated, their challenges are supported. They can 're allowed to feel goofy and silly and just be children.
Intelligence is broad and is accepted in its diversity. Every occupation is seen as valuable and important and teachers and guides are brought in, in order to validate and encourage and prepare.
Learning centers are the center of the community where everybody is supporting it and playing a role.
As our children move through the world, they maintain a sense of curiosity and compassion and humility, a sense of wonder and a sense of awe travels with them. A knowledge that they supported physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually, and it never leaves them.
They know that the community they are in wants them and supports them into becoming the best version of themselves. And they themselves want to be a valuable and helpful member of that community.
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The Future We Want for Education
Photo by Stephen Leonardi via Unsplash.
September 26, 2022
Efforts to transform education are meeting and will meet numerous challenges. Many of these are technical or political, but a core challenge to be tackled is one of vision. Here, a group of cross-cultural education experts lay out their vision for inclusive, learner-empowered education futures.
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e want children to love learning and feel enthusiastic and coming to their place of learning.
This is a vision for the future of education systems co-created by the authors. Their goal is to envision what an inclusive, ideational infrastructure for education systems around the world could look like where learners are empowered and at the center of their respective systems. These are guiding principles agreed upon by this cross-cultural group of experts, which they believe can be embraced cross-culturally. - The editors.
We want children to love learning and feel enthusiastic and coming to their place of learning.
Their teachers are now guides who light sparks and fan the flames of curiosity.
Learning happens anywhere. Learning centers are fluid and change based on community needs.
Within these learning centers there is a feeling of safety, trust, dignity, and respect towards the guides and the students.
The students are asked what they are curious about, what they want to learn. They are given the support and guidance to follow their chosen learning path.
The students learn to self-assess, how to give and receive feedback, and how to resolve conflicts, both internal and external. Students learn to value their individuality and their role as an active, contributing member in society.
Students know life is not a zero-sum game, but abundance. They are not compared to each other. They don’t compete, but collaborate. That if you thrive then I thrive and we thrive.
They feel supported in their challenges. Failure is non-existent if you learned something.
Learning guides are respected and valued in society. Given the recognition and admiration of their communities for being the ones who are taking on the privilege of guiding the children.
Teaching others is regarded as one of the most privileged and important positions in society. Learning guides are lifelong learners themselves, do self-development and thereby lead by example.
When a student ‘chooses’ to leave their chosen ‘formal’ education they do so knowing that they're still learning, and are enthusiastic about continuing to learn and help those around them.
There is no longer a fixed definition of success. Indeed, we no longer use the word success. It's deemed old, antiquated and even offensive. We now use the word “thrive” or some other word that encapsulates one's growth into the best version of themselves.
Technology is a useful part of their life. They use it as a tool, it serves them, not rules them.
Learners feel heard, and their opinion matters. As does everyone else's. They listen and they enjoy listening to everyone's opinions. They can rethink and unlearn. They doubt what they know, remain curious about what they don’t know, and keep an open-mind. They don't feel scared if they don't know something. They enjoy not knowing.
They know how to care for their social, emotional, and physical health. They listen to their bodies, they take the time to show it the respect it deserves.
Students feel excited. It will be another month or another year of contributing to another person's life. They have questions about the future, but at the same time, they feel hope.
The students are never left wanting anything. They're joyful, engaged, they feel cared for and creative. They see they feel seen and heard.
Their questions are respected and responded to with curiosity. They're allowed to be still. Students are empowered and able to feel intrigued.
When they feel lost or frustrated, they recognize this because they've been asked to get out of their comfort zone. But they feel supported in this. When their emotions ebb and flow when they feel confused, they feel supported most of the time and feel able to ask for help.
Students are valued for all aspects of their personalities, their strengths are celebrated, their challenges are supported. They can 're allowed to feel goofy and silly and just be children.
Intelligence is broad and is accepted in its diversity. Every occupation is seen as valuable and important and teachers and guides are brought in, in order to validate and encourage and prepare.
Learning centers are the center of the community where everybody is supporting it and playing a role.
As our children move through the world, they maintain a sense of curiosity and compassion and humility, a sense of wonder and a sense of awe travels with them. A knowledge that they supported physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually, and it never leaves them.
They know that the community they are in wants them and supports them into becoming the best version of themselves. And they themselves want to be a valuable and helpful member of that community.
